The results of the meta-analysis indicate that parental involvement is associated with higher student achievement outcomes.

These findings emerged consistently whether the outcome measures were grades, standardized test scores, or a variety of other measures, including teacher ratings.

This trend holds not only for parental involvement overall but for most components of parental involvement that were examined in the meta-analysis.

Moreover, the pattern holds not only for the overall student population but for minority students as well.

For the overall population of students, on average, the achievement scores of children with highly involved parents was higher than children with less involved parents.

This academic advantage for those parents who were highly involved in their education averaged about .5– .6 of a standard deviation for overall educational outcomes, grades, and academic achievement.

In other words, the academic achievement score distribution or range of scores for children whose parents were highly involved in their education was substantially higher than that of their counterparts whose parents were less involved

Research confirms that parent involvement does matter particularly when your son/daughter/family member decides whether or not to go to college, or when thinking about future jobs opportunities.

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